Supersymmetry and stability of flux vacua

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2006, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Blanco Pillado, Jose Juan ^a   Kallosh, Renata ^b,c   Linde, Andrei ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

dS vacua in string theory; Flux compactifications; Superstring Vacua

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747458026     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/05/053     Document Type: Article

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